Our vision is to develop an imperceptible layer of pervasive technology that anticipates the needs, intents, and emotional states of people to improve their lives.

Our Team

Dr. Neil Sarkar

CEO

Responsible for setting the overall direction and strategy for the company and for leading the design and development of AdHawk’s core technology and infrastructure

Inventor of the MEMS scanner-based eye-tracking, head-tracking and gesture recognition systems that are under development at AdHawk

Co-founder of Integrated Circuit Scanning Probe Instruments (ICSPI Corp) with over 15 years of experience as a MEMS design engineer

PhD fellow of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, winner of the 2014 Douglas Colton Award for research excellence in microsystems, a two-time winner of the Manning Award for Canadian Innovation and a recipient of the NSERC PGS-D award

Sandro Banerjee

COO

Responsible for business operations and development, strategic initiatives and financial management for AdHawk

Former Vice President in Global Investment Banking at RBC Capital Markets with over 8 years of experience executing mid to large-cap public and private financings, IPOs and providing M&A and other corporate advisory services

MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, BASc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, P.Eng, CFA charterholder

Dr. Nino Zahirovic

CTO

Responsible for advising on product development and related strategy for AdHawk

R&D leader with substantial breadth and depth of technical and research experience from digital design and software, to analog and RF circuits with hands-on lab skills and a holistic approach to system design and product development

Over 5 years experience leading a multi-disciplinary team of hardware, software and algorithm engineers to implement state-of-the-art technologies for AMOLED displays

PhD Electrical Engineering and BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, recipient of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology fellowship and NSERC PGS-D award

Dr. Winter Yan

VP Manufacturing

To lead operations in Asia for wafer-level packaging and MEMS release process

Key technical contributor to a wafer level packaging technology which later served as a platform for all company wide products

Over 1 billion products shipped based on this platform

Personal/professional network with access to extensive manufacturing resources in Asia

Dr. Raafat Mansour

Professor & Advisor

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo

Senior Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nano Integrated RF Systems

Founding Director of the Center for Integrated RF Engineering (CIRFE) at the University of Waterloo

20+ years of technical and management positions in RF MEMS industry and research

37 U.S. and Canadian patents to his credit (33 awarded and 4 pending) and has published over 350 papers

Duncan Strathearn

Product Development

Extensive experience in a number of micro and nanosystem design roles and recently designed the hardware, software, and MEMS that are used in ICSPI’s flagship single-chip Atomic Force Microscope product

BASc in Nanotechnology Engineering from the University of Waterloo

Geoff Lee

Manufacturing

Over 5 years of experience with microfabrication in a clean room environment, developing and optimizing various MEMS processes – in particular, CMOS-MEMS processing

MASc in Electromechanical Engineering, BASc in Nanotechnology Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a recipient of the OGSST scholarship

Mahdi Olfat

Software Development

Vast experience as an embedded system designer in various Silicon Valley and Waterloo companies

BASc in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is currently pursuing a MASc Degree in the RF, Microwaves, and Photonics group at the University of Waterloo

Brendan O'Hanlon

Dr. Arash Rohani

Optical Development

Experienced in design, development, and characterization of advanced optical and THz sensing systems and contributed to the design and development of more than 20 complete sensing systems being employed in industrial environments

PhD Computational Electromagnetics, MASc Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at the University of Waterloo